Latisys Expands Its Ashburn Data Center Campus as Part of Its Growing National IaaS Platform

ASHBURN, VA, Nov 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Responding to growing demand for highly flexible and scalable IT
infrastructure solutions, Latisys, a leading national provider of
outsourced IT solutions from colocation to cloud, today announced
availability of DC05, an additional 22,000 sq. ft. of highly secure,
ultra-high power density, carrier-grade IT infrastructure space and
additional power in its state-of-the-art data center just outside of
Washington, DC.

The Ashburn, Virginia data center campus serves as the east coast hub
of Latisys' national IT Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform
which includes Chicago, Denver and Irvine, CA -- making Latisys an
ideal platform for production workloads, Disaster Recovery and as a
gateway to Asia Pacific, Europe and South America. DC05 features 4.4
MW of new critical power and along with rack-based cooling designed
to achieve 40KW per cabinet.

Latisys' focus on ultra-high density enables extreme flexibility in
the design and delivery of a broad portfolio of IT infrastructure
services -- including: enterprise-grade colocation, managed hosting,
cloud computing and storage, managed security, IP connectivity
services and disaster recovery solutions. Key benefits include:
-- Reduced TCO by eliminating capital expenditures and leveraging Latisys
investments in next-generation technologies, operational expertise and
technology platform efficiencies
-- High density N+1 redundant power and efficient cooling, 36" raised
floors and optional hot-aisle or cold-aisle containment
-- Network-neutral facility geographically positioned in Ashburn for
reliable connectivity, with connections to multiple Tier 1 providers
-- State-of-the-art security featuring multi-layered security systems,
digital video surveillance, network monitors and a 24x7x365
fully-manned Network Operations Center (NOC) that is tied to the
national support team
The Ashburn campus supports the highly scalable Latisys Enterprise
Cloud platform -- enabling companies to rapidly provision on-demand,
pay-as-you-go IT infrastructure services. The Latisys Enterprise
Cloud features:
-- Members-only access through a secure self-service portal
-- Spin-up and spin down of compute, network and storage resources
on-demand -- paying only for what is consumed
-- Multiple Quality of Service (QoS) levels, enabling users to tailor
cloud performance to specific production workloads or test and
development environments
-- Industry-leading support both on the front-end design of cloud
solutions as well as on the ongoing support to continuously optimize
cloud within the overall IaaS portfolio of solutions
-- Truly hybrid solutions that span colocation and cloud, managed costing
and cloud and managed services -- a state-of-the-art home for your
most complex, dynamic workloads
Washington's leading enterprises and government organizations rely on
Latisys to provide critical IT infrastructure solutions that underpin
their business. This incremental data center capacity also enhances
Latisys' disaster recovery services for current and prospective
customers looking for reliable multi-site redundancy in an area known
for low risk of natural disasters. With seven high-density, Tier III
data centers across the U.S. and a built-for-the-future platform of
solutions that span colocation, managed hosting and cloud, Latisys
provides unmatched scalability to enterprise customers -- wherever
they are -- whether they seek to off-premise, off-load, optimize or
on-demand their IT infrastructure.

"Washington and the mid-Atlantic region features a high concentration
of large enterprises and government organizations dealing with
rapidly expanding and increasingly complex IT and cloud
environments," said Peter Stevenson, CEO of Latisys. "We focus on
helping them make a successful transition from conventional IT to
more dynamic hybrid and cloud environments that today underpin the
vast majority of large organizations and likely have hidden costs."
Latisys' national data center platform is operated under SOC 2 Type 2
and SOC 3 audited controls. This replaces the SAS 70 guidebook and
reaffirms Latisys' commitment to meet the highest standards for
availability and security, while making sure all of the appropriate
controls and safeguards are firmly in place.

Separately, Latisys today announced that construction has commenced
on an additional 10,000 square feet of high-density, raised floor
data center space in Chicago.

Earlier this year, Latisys announced that it is adding 72,000 square
feet of highly secure, high density, carrier grade IT infrastructure
space along with significant power upgrades. After the recent opening
of DEN2 -- Latisys' newest state-of-the-art data center in Denver --
and DC5 -- in Ashburn, Latisys' total data center platform now
exceeds 343,000 square feet across seven data centers in four major
markets.

About Latisys
Latisys is a leading national provider of colocation,
managed hosting, managed services, disaster recovery and private
cloud solutions to medium-sized businesses, enterprise customers and
government agencies. With a heritage of serving business customers
since 1994, and multiple high-density data centers across the United
States, Latisys offers a scalable outsourced IT infrastructure
platform that provides customers with what they need, when they need
it. As a client-centric company -- with state of the art data centers
in Ashburn, Virginia, Chicago, Denver and Irvine, California --
Latisys is quickly becoming the IaaS platform of choice for companies
that demand more from their IT infrastructure partner. All while
optimizing clients' return on investment. All while 'delivering
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